I am new to legacy but I have for sometime used the technique of entering an unknown female spouse as"LNAME". In other words, I place quotation marks around the known last name of the husband. If I later learn the correct maiden name I just replace it. For males where I do not know a first name I generally leave it blank and then later correct it when i get the information. Hope this may help others.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:50 AM, R G Strong-genes <rgstrongge...@gmail.com> wrote: > It does, however, create a marriage record for unknown and unknown. > > -----Original Message----- From: MikeFry > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:49 AM > To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering a sibling without parents > > > On 25 Feb 2016 3:13 AM, Ed Ladendorf via LegacyUserGroup wrote: > > For a long time, because of several strong indications, I was reasonably >> sure >> that Susanna Schommer was a sister to my g-grandmother, Maria Schommer. >> Now I >> finally have proof of that. When I went to enter a sibling for Maria, I >> recieved a message saying that siblings cannot be entered without first >> having a parent. >> > > I have no information whatsoever as to what their parents' names were, so >> in >> my mind, not entering a sibling would be a sin. She needs to be there so >> someone other than myself could have a shot of finding something I >> couldn't >> yet find. So I entered a mother with the given name of "Not", and the >> surname >> of "Known". The sibling was then added successfully. Has anyone else had >> this >> problem, and if so, how did you handle it? >> > > In a past existence (Legacy 7.5) it was possible, with a parent-less > person on > show in the Family tab, to double-click on the empty parents and have the > program 'create' blank parents. You could then add a sibling to the > original, > parent-less person. No parents were actually created. This no longer seems > to > work under version 8.0 > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry (Jhb) > > > > _______________________________________________ > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >
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